January 2010
27 posts
RT @Justin_Steele I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This ?http://bit.ly/8rFkzU
Heart will never melt/ sheilds up, and keep your distance/ the artic circle
December 2009
46 posts
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WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? →
Via Imaginary Foundation
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Ignite →
“If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.”
Via Simon G
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Repair Manifesto →
“The Dutch design collaborative Platform 21 has launched a new project to promote repairing things as an alternative to recycling them or throwing them away. See their “Repair Manifesto” below.”
Via Boing Boing
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Fallacies: alphabetic list (full list) →
The poet arrives/ upon a BC ferry/ to noodle box please
Ho ho ha ha ha/ laughter yoga and salmon/ my parents host well
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The addiction affliction →
“Like a compulsive crack user desperately sucking on a broken pipe, we can’t get enough of addiction. We got hooked on the concept a few centuries back, originally to describe the compulsive intake of alcohol and, later, the excessive use of drugs like heroin and cocaine. Now it seems like we’re using it every chance we can get—applying the concept to any behavior that seems...
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The Power of Nothing →
excerpt:
“But that ‘nothing’ – it’s a powerful thing. As incentive, as punishment, as warning.
We, the human race, are born having to dream. We need it. We need to look up into the sky and see the stars, and believe in them, or in a God who dwells beyond them – something – something – SOMETHING…”
Put Fallout 3 on / Lasagna, eggnog, and rum/ it feels like Christmas
Rarely understand/ A cause of my heart’s ache/ Read Dresden codak
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UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION AA INTER UNIT 7_The End... →
“design fiction from a crack squad of Architecture Association students”
Via Warren Ellis
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The 'Rare Earth' delusion →
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Citizen Science: becoming involved in serious... →
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How many slices does it take to accurately judge... →
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Grieving Chimps →
My hour is up/ a brief respite from chaos/ back into the fray
Shift into top gear/ cruising up in twenty-fourth/ damn I love my bike
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Toward a meaningful definition of posthuman... →
Via Sentient Developments
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On the baggage of Transhumanism →
via Sentient Developments
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Bring your bag of dice/ players manual and pen/ tonight we hunt grue
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Toadz Mix For the Masses →
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potato leek soup
herby gureyere dumplings too
its om nomming time
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ExtInked: Tattoos to save the world - CultureLab -... →
“ExtInked, where people came from far and wide to have one of Britain’s most endangered species permanently tattooed on their body, making them a life long ambassador for that species.”
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Tomatoes can 'eat' insects - Telegraph →
“Garden vegetables such as tomatoes and potatoes have been found to be deadly killers on a par with Venus fly traps, according to research.”
Via Neatorama
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Japanese Street Addresses and Other Cultural... →
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This video by musician and entrepreneur Derek Sivers provides several examples of American cultural norms that are counterintuitive in other societies. For example, Americans navigate roads with street addresses, but Japanese streets don’t have names. “
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Personal Branding Iron – Neatorama →
“This company will make a tiny branding iron with your name on it! The product is a metal part that will replace the head of a disposable cigarette lighter.”
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Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What... →
Saw this in the most recent Wired at work.
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Internet Vices - Patrick Moberg →
Excerpt:
“Facebook is a vodka cranberry: Social lubricant used to enhance still developing social etiquette. You’re aware of your uninhibited actions, but comforted by the built in safety net of excuses.”
Via Neatorama
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Sniff test to... →
“The key to preserving the old, degrading paper of treasured, ageing books is contained in the smell of their pages, say scientists”
Via Neatorama
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7 Badass Vikings →
Via Neatorama
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The Bitch is Back →
2009’s most influential author is a mirthless Russian-American who loves money, hates God, and swings a gigantic dick. She died in 1982, but her spawn soldier on. And the Great Recession is all their fault
Via Coilhouse
The Edge Case: Indies Rally To Raise Copyfight... →
“In a nutshell: Langdell’s Edge Games, a UK-based publisher in the earliest days of home computer games, has tirelessly struggled to maintain ownership over the word against any would-be competitor, regardless of discipline, growing more convoluted and ludicrous the farther down the rabbit hole you go (the Chaos Edge blog is the most damning at documenting just how bizarre it’s...